From Transport Development to Land Reclamation: Contested Spatio-Temporalities along Penang’s Littoral, Malaysia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.125847" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.125847</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/001c.125847" target="_blank" >10.24043/001c.125847</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Transport Development to Land Reclamation: Contested Spatio-Temporalities along Penang’s Littoral, Malaysia

Original language description

“One island is enough” was written on a banner shaped like Penang Island, Malaysia, during a demonstration against the plan to create three artificial islands. The Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project, adopted by the local administration and developers, aims to finance the Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP). This ambitious plan includes several components, such as monorail and light rapid transit lines. While land reclamation is not new in Penang, this mega-development project has faced unprecedented opposition from a wide range of actors. In dialogue with fishers and activists supporting the Penang Tolak Tambak (Penang Rejects Reclamation) campaign, and through the analysis of government documents, non-governmental reports, news articles, and social media, this paper traces how state, corporate, and civil society actors have shifted their focus from the PTMP to the PSR project. Thus far, scholarly literature on island environmental movements has focused on the right to the island and the right to nature, while claims related to the land-sea interfaces, which so clearly delineate island spatialities, have been somewhat neglected. By exploring the contested spatio-temporalities of this land reclamation project off the south coast of Penang, this paper expands the dialogue of the right to the island to include the right to the sea.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50702 - Urban studies (planning and development)

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Island Studies Journal

ISSN

1715-2593

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

137-161

UT code for WoS article

001379758800008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85213546707